Big news on Rollin's girlfriend post WWE axe, NXT stars released, SmackDown
– WWE’s b show Smackdown, which airs every Thursday night has currently seen the same fate as RAW with respect to TV ratings.
The numbers have seen a consistent slump in recent weeks and WWE officials along with Vince McMahon have been actively working towards correcting it. The recent episode of Smackdown saw a minor rise in the ratings from last weeks 2.132 million viewers. This week garnered 2.147 million viewers. The WWE’s stock also was up by 0.72% on Friday with closing at 19.69$ per share.
– NXT is a developmental stage where WWE stars are built for the main roster. Some like Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and others make it to the grand stage while others aren’t that lucky or you can say talented enough.
PWInsider confirmed that NXT had released two of their prospects, Devin Taylor who worked as an interviewer backstage and Cal Bishop, who just could not cut it in the big leagues and was not a regular fixture on the show.
– Seth Rollins has had a fantastic year winning the WWE World Heavyweight championship at Wrestlemania and defending it against top stars such as Brock Lesnar and Sting. Having said that he has also faced some bad controversies along the way, mainly involving his former girlfriend Zahra Schreiber. Both of them were left embarrassed when their private photos were leaked online. Zahra went one step further by posting racist opinions on twitter. This was the last straw and the WWE released her.
She went straight to the House of Truth wrestling school in Detroit to hone her craft. Now that she has done that, she has joined an independent promotion Dreamwave in Illinois, which is managed by Truth Martini of Ring of Honor. A promotional video was released to introduce Zahra Schreiber. She would act as the manager of Donovan Danhausen.